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|Designation
 
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|Hive Tyrant
 
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|Common Title
 
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|Overfiend
 
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|Tyranicus Praefactor
 
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|Fangs and claws
 
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|Average Height
 
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|Average Weight
 
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|6.1 tonnes
 
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|None
 
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|Tyran
 
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|Role
 
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|Battlefield command
 
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|Threat evaluation
 
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|Very high
 
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|Synapse creature that also displays psychic powers. Priority target for all weapons for maximum disruption of the Hive Mind.
 
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Revision as of 12:04, 11 February 2007

A Hive Tyrant is the closest thing to a leader unit that can be commonly found in a Tyranid force. They are extremely powerful, large and strong and may make use of massive close combat strength or specially augmented ranged bio-weaponry, although they excel in both.

They are highly mutatable, including the development of unfeasably large scythes or extra thick body carapace. They are also highly psychic and closly related to the Hive Mind, acting as control nodes for those lesser beings all around them. Some mutants are born with wings giving them a major advantage over other Tyrants, however they are more vulnerable to heavy weapons and anti-tank weapons, in fact they lack of the stronger tyranids carapace armour.

Imperial techno-magi believe that Hive Tyrants form the repository of the Hive Fleet's collective consciousness, which means they completely embody the Hive Mind but their destruction does not in any way diminish its presence.


Ordo Xenos Departmento Analyticus Record
Designation Hive Tyrant Main Weaponry 4x scything claws
Common Title Overfiend
Specied Name Tyranicus Praefactor Secondary Weaponry Fangs and claws
Average Height 2.9m
Average Weight 6.1 tonnes Tertiary Weaponry None
First encountered Tyran
Role Battlefield command
Threat evaluation Very high
Summary Synapse creature that also displays psychic powers. Priority target for all weapons for maximum disruption of the Hive Mind.





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